Yah I LOST 500 points whne I enabled CF.

Got it sorted though and gained about 6k IIRC.

Yah I can tell with that 2k theme. heh heh

ugh do not want to go off topic so I will leave it like this...

Some day I will write the article.

Well.... I installed my drive with XP and did a single card run of 76130 so I guess XP is the OS for this bench. Still have no idea what y'all are doing with the LOD tweeks LMAO!

It seems all 3 of my 280's are fine... so that's good news, just that much difference in XP and Vista I guess.

I am benchin, not tweakin, lol. :flaminmad:

Seems so for me also cause I have no tweeks LOL. I'm thinking about installing XP on my new i7 rig now just to see if it makes a difference. I just hit right under 80000 in this rig but I was at 4278Mhz with a single 280 so that won't qualify.

Are you overclocking your card at all Jeff?

lemme know ill help you get over 80k

Punx, you gonna bencht that gtx295?

maybe but it aint mine... plus im having issues with it right now... i dont think it likes my jiggabyte.... my boards been a lil funny lately, and i cant be without it right now, so im just kinda cruisin it :D

tahts why i was planning on replacing it with a 920 D0 and a msi eclipse i got a sweet deal on, but the board i got had fubarred pins

Ohh let me know.. I am not a jiggaByte fan at all

I see that name tossed about a lot lately in places it should not be, and thinking of trying out a ultra budget setup for straight wrecking purposes...

despite what has been done on my setup I really do not like this ASUS board and its the last in a line of ASUS boards I do not like, that perform well. *wow go figure. (Gotta hate the ones you love?)

I really liked Abit, but there quality sucked, they did everythign else right IMHO...

DFI, loves running a chipset till it bleeds. unfortunately the do not seem to sell a board no matter how expensive that can it cool enough.

Biostar... hated it. But gotta give it props. Gave a board that thought need a reflash. Left it sit for 6 months and bedamned if it did not fire right back up...

VIA.. sweet VIA. held my first "sweet rig" (currently running my 3rd, second happened 2 months ago. 35ns at 500MHz ddr. Sweet popping VIA chipset, with a cheap shit hipro 400W "dual rail" psu that I modded to be a single to get my clawhammer replacement to boot after that sweet winnie...

Like old girlfriends that are just so fond in memory...

DFI is great if you dont mind a shitty bios

Asus is great if you just wanna throw it away if it breaks...

Biostar well read dfi comment except not as good of history

Via... ahh the good ole days...

Gigabyte... solid boards..... not quite so good power circuits

EVGA well i work there so "theyre the best boards ever" Disclaimer: I in no way intend taht toward any board except the X58... especially not toward 780i :rofl:rofl

Thanks man for that :)

Worried I was out there by myself.


EVGA has some sick quality mixed with aesthetics. I wanted to go nVidia for so long, just cause their cards are sick looking as hell. And their warranty program is unsurpassed.
(edit: but I am a DAAMIT guy)
Unfortunately of the green team members that made the jump, only XFX really banged it with the black PCB IIRC. (I mean on a budget board.. ASUS I think has cards at like +50% cost over value with black pcb). Now I am a ghetto bencher so looks do not matter for my perf rig... but I like to build sweet lookign rigs, hell look at that MSI 790FX board... pure sex on silicone. Performance wise? Actually Asus managed (by a small percentage) on that one (somehow) not by loosening PL values thats for sure.. those fuckers screwed me on 775).. followed by MSI (remember their 7900GT disaster?) and Gigabyte.. (remember anything by them? No? Me neither...). Last was DFI... but in their defense.. Wong went to Abit and made them a name... that also failed in the quality department.

DFI bios especially on some of the lan party series board made me wanna hang myself!!!

Yup.... I might be able to squeeze a little more out of it though, but not much.


Kewl.... lets do it!

The DFI LP UT X58-T3EH8 actually has a better BIOS than the Classy I think. Better RAM options too. The only thing wrong with it is the 21 mult issue with Windows 7.

4890 will be here today ;) wonder what it will do attached to SS

My three will be here Monday. :D

I got something for the both of you :doublefinger: of course kid ;)

rofl, I will sell them to you when Im done OC ;)

Oh, oh, I guess I better install winXP tonight and start spamm.... I mean posting a bit more here so I can reach the 50 post requirement to enter the contest. :D

NBOC is cleaning clocks in this challenge. Will there be any challengers to their top spots??????:confused5::confused3::confused1:

Love that statement Supes!!

I'm at least 100 runs deep lol.

rofl....spent 4 hours this morning alone on this biotch.:confused5:

lol, but it's fun man I haven't dedicated like this is a while :)

So many exact same scores it's uncanny.

The empire completely concurs....We have almost finished our thesis on benching 3dm01se....for what its worth.....release date, july 13 2009.

Will this doc be in open circulation or a closely guarded secret???? :confused1:

You probably ought to ask the guy who destroys my runs and dominates my old gtx's,....he will know more. In all seriousness Kal, I would be more than happy to pm you and let ya know what I have learned recently.....

i actually had a run single card where i raised the core 5 mhz and went from 80k to 71k :rofl

im guessing the card may have gotten warm :eek:

I have a good 50 under my belt since the contest start date. Have to admit having fun with it.

ive run it so many times i think im gonna dream i am in the lobby test.... but i dont think red stands a chance on this one

I don't know bro, we have yet to see someone fire off with a choice 4890.

Mission Objective #1 -Initialized-


Thx Rom, I'll be happy simply with if when the comp is over, whomever owns the top spots would share some pointers with anybody struggling with this benchmark.
Mission Objective #2/3 -In Progress- (Bench! Bench! Bench!)

Mission Objective #2 -In Progress-

Mission Objective #3 -in progress- (Bench! Bench! Bench!)

Mission Objective#3 -in progress- (Bench! Bench! Bench!)

ooh will give this a go :D

I was installing XP last night and jacked up my Vista raid 0 setup in the process will have to rebuild that I guess. :argh:

Seems like you guys have been at it for a while, I'll have to do a lot of catching up if I want to end up like this guy :trophy: or maybe like this guy :confused2:

Ran 3dmark01 in Vista, which I had never done before and could not beleive the score. :rofl

Yeah.... 3DM01 does not play well with Vista as I found out.

Or dual GPU's. It loves single GPU XP runs though.

20 k loss at least with Vista.

Hot Carl's Pancake House, ROFL!!!

should be here today :rofl and if its not, F ups and their damn slips. I sign the bitches and they still dont leave my shit. The pickup area is in the ghetto and I waited 1.5 hours last time :argh:

finally someone who picked up on it :D